"Crush" by Jennifer Paige

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[00:01:43] Crush became a surprise hit for the previously unknown Jennifer Page in the fall of 1998.

[00:03:02] Before her album was even released, she was out on the road performing the song on television So Matt, it's September of 1998. Google is formally incorporated by two students at Stanford. One hit thunder favorite Natalie and Bruglia wins best new artist at the VMAs. Frasier wins the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker's Rush Hour is released to theaters.

[00:03:06] Britney Spears' debut single, Baby One More Time is released. I had so many crushes, be it celebrity crushes, or like, you know, especially, I don't know, you're a dorky kid, you don't have a lot of girlfriends in your life, and then you go to college, and there's just all of these like gorgeous, smart women around you. Like I think I had more crushes in the fall of 2004,

[00:04:23] my freshman year at college,

[00:04:25] than at any other point in my life.

[00:04:27] I feel like it's easier to have a crush like above their garage. Yeah. Yeah. And then she ends up like she sees him hooking up with like a woman he should an age appropriate woman. She releases wasps into the into that woman's room and then she grabs the used condom from the garbage and accuses him of sexual

[00:05:40] assault and all this. Yeah. I mean the movies really messed up. I mean the show's Zendaya's performance is amazing. Great actors and like whatever. But the thing is messed up about it is yeah everybody's of age. You know who's getting naked on it but they're supposed to be high school students. Yeah so it's a very weird line that we do that we deal with that with Hard Movie Night allper, where she's just kind of like a regular, weird, dorky teen. I was like, who is this girl? And then it was like every couple years, a new Christina Ricci movie would come out and I would fall head over heels all over again.

[00:08:20] Even like one of her weirder movies, Pekka.

[00:08:22] I just watched that recently.

[00:08:24] Yeah, I was like, gosh, she's so pretty.

[00:08:26] Like she's just, I don't have a crush on Alison Hannigan when I'm watching Buffy, or when I'm watching How I Met Your Mother, but there's something about her as the band geek in American Pie that I like do have a bit of a crush. I like geeky people, man.

[00:09:40] That's like my type, is I like dorks.

[00:09:42] So her playing like super dorky and kind of weird.

[00:09:45] I was like, ooh, I like this.

[00:09:47] I like young person. I feel like I've had crushes all through my life. Yeah. I think that that's nonsense. Yeah. As far as what

[00:11:00] a crush feels like, I don't know,. Like trying to talk to them. Total doofus, which made them immediately lose interest. And I had on more than one occasion where I became friends with them and the crush had subsided and I could be a normal person where someone has said to me,

[00:12:21] man, if you were like this the first time I met you,

[00:12:25] I would have a crush. That's a question. You know, it's just a little crush. Not like I faint every time we touch. It's just some little thing. Not like everything I do depends on you. And then she has that verse. It's the rising of my adrenaline. You're banging on a heart of 10. Please don't make too much of it, baby. You say the word forever more.

[00:13:42] That's not what I'm looking for. All I can's her only song. I will be referring to her as Jennifer Crush. Not her actual birth name, which I believe was Jennifer Shuggins. Jennifer Shuggins? Why would you change that to Jennifer? I would just gone straight for Jennifer Crush if you're going to change it.

[00:15:01] But yeah, this song is described as a teen pop song, but she is not a teen at the time

[00:15:07] of this. based on how popular the song was becoming without the record label involvement. And like everything else was a game of playing catch up. And I think that it kind of shows when you listen to a lot of the other songs that it was, hey, we've got a strike by the iron's hot.

[00:16:20] Like we got to get 12 more songs

[00:16:21] and get this album out like ASAP.

[00:16:24] I watched a very unp. I love a great pop song. I was expecting to like more songs by Jennifer Page. And I kind of just was like, oh, these aren't really that great. I mean, her other singles, Sober, It's Okay, Always You, her third single,

[00:17:41] which there's like a regular version of it

[00:17:43] and like a dance version, It's Okay.

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[00:21:40] Crush on you.

[00:21:41] I got a Crush on you.

[00:21:42] I got a Crush on you, which is like the opposite of this song actually lyrically now that we

[00:21:47] figured out. Yeah is is that this is the response to? Mandy Moore's crush. Yes, it's just a little crush Mandy. Okay, so I'm sure that this is probably a song you like But did you know what song bumped? Finally after her four-week run at number three bumped her down to number four. No, what song in early October 1998?

[00:23:06] This is your only hint

[00:23:07] It's been They're just fun. They're just a fun band and I'm into fun music But yeah, yeah, bare naked ladies. Absolutely love this song This was a song that we would listen to on many Kelly family vacations Okay, this and and Chumbawamba tub thumping would make its way onto every road trip mixtape for the the car ride

[00:24:20] I take it you're not a BNL guy. Yeah

[00:25:25] like we should I sent you a video that was kind of comical where it was two people pretending to be the backup singers on this song.

[00:25:29] But that's what makes this song, I think.

[00:25:33] I think if you took out the like,

[00:25:36] crush, like you would lose so much in this song.

[00:25:40] Yeah, I think you're right.

[00:25:41] This might be the first song ever on one hit Thunder

[00:26:41] Mark Millar.

[00:26:45] He wrote Crush for Jennifer Page, and that's what Love's for for Amy Grant

[00:26:47] and Nothing at All for Heart.

[00:26:49] Vanity Fair magazine article about him

[00:26:51] and his DuckTales theme covered the pop music career.

[00:26:54] So he wrote the DuckTales theme.

[00:26:56] Oh my God.

[00:26:57] And he wrote Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers theme songs.

[00:27:01] Oh!

[00:27:02] His-

[00:27:03] Chip and Dale's.

[00:27:05] Ah!

[00:27:05] You see, he's-

[00:27:06] We should just add the ahs and the crushes Like, just replace, like, Chachachippin' Dale, ah, rescue Rangers. Dude, so good, so good. Man, it would be so much fun to write the theme song to a cartoon. I feel like you could just do whatever the fuck you wanted with that. That, I mean, the DuckTales theme song is

[00:28:21] the apex of cartoon theme songs.

[00:28:24] I agree.

[00:28:25] There's never been a better one.

[00:28:27] I don't know that there ever will be a better one. the guy was like, I wanted the theme song to capture the idea of a song that's in a young kid's head when he's being imaginative. And that's why there's no instruments. It's just like different vocal things, like as if you were a kid, just like do do do do. And then you start doing like your own little like guitar part where you're like, ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma. It's like, talking about that.

[00:29:41] And then like with Red and Stimpy,

[00:29:42] it was just that they knew a guy who played Blue's guitar

[00:29:47] and was just like, can more of like a moody synth pop song. And I kind of liked it. I liked it. I actually liked it. And that's a good thing that all those years later, she's writing, I don't like it as much as Crush, but that, you know, she's coming out the other end

[00:31:04] with a good song there.

[00:31:05] And this is, let's do this. Is it finish the lyrics to DuckTales? Cause I can do it. No, it's about the danger. We're back to crushes. So I wanted to see if I could find any information on who the most crushed upon people were in the country. And I went to a site called the loop or the laup,

[00:32:24] the L-O-U-P-E, this site.

[00:32:27] Okay. I don't know the you can do it. Okay. If you can get two names from each of them, you win.

[00:33:42] But you can get three strikes on each.

[00:33:45] We'll go back and forth. the whole spectrum of pop culture is covered in this. It's the whole spectrum for sure. They're all people that people would still know. Like it's not like that. It's like, you know, yeah. The lead singer of like one of the singers of Manudo is like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:35:00] Yeah, it's not like that.

[00:35:02] Okay, okay.

[00:35:03] Okay, if the whole spectrum is covered,

[00:35:06] I'm gonna say one of wasn't one of them, but you got two strikes on each now. I feel like you're gonna read this list and I'm gonna be like, oh, of course, but also like how the hell would I have come to the conclusions of any of these? You're gonna say, oh, of course, to some, and you're gonna be outraged by some. I'm gonna just, this one's for my friends

[00:36:20] who used to do the Disney-Doe podcast

[00:36:22] because they talked about him constantly,

[00:36:24] is Henry Cavill in the husband's list

[00:36:27] from the Witcher era. At number four, Bradley Cooper. Okay, yeah, should've, oh my god, is Brad Pitt on the list? He's not surprised. Oh wow, okay. Yeah, that's pretty crazy. At number three, this is one where I'm like, what? I'm pretty interested if you know who this is. At number three, Jensen Ackles. Is he an athlete?

[00:37:40] No.

[00:37:41] Who is Jensen Ackles?

[00:37:43] He's on the show Supernatural.

[00:37:46] Jensen Ackles, not Brad Pitt. Let's say if they'd be in our top 25 wives list. Number eight, Shakira. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe. I'm down with that one. I mean, 25 is a lot of names. I would say Shakira probably makes it in the top 25. Shakira's in her mid to late 40s, looks great.

[00:39:01] God, that's right.

[00:39:02] Because she did that Super Bowl performance.

[00:39:04] And people were like, this is a woman that's nearing 50.

[00:39:08] Look at this. Yeah, I like Amy Adams, but if I had to put, if I'm putting a redhead in there and probably go with Emma Stone, I've been watching The Curse and I got to finish The Curse. Yeah. Did Emma Stone not make this list? She did not. That's also shocking and insane. Yeah. But okay. Continue. Number four. in that last Christmas movie that she did, where she had her natural hair color. I was like, oh, damn. She's really pretty. Yeah. Yeah, I know. That makes a ton of sense. Amelia Clark is a beautiful woman who seems to have an amazing personality and been through a lot of health issues.

[00:41:42] Yeah, I was going to say, she's kind of been MIA for a while.

[00:41:45] I didn't know that it was health stuff, but.

[00:41:47] Oh, I mean,, she's the cutest of the friends. And I don't know, like I said, I like weird dorky people. Like Phoebe was like totally my type. Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong. All three of them are, they look great. Like I'm not saying anything about their looks, but Jennifer Aniston, come on. Never did it for me. Never did, even as a kid watching Friends,

[00:43:00] never did it for me.

[00:43:01] Yeah, but that was the list that was skewed

[00:43:05] very much towards like, I feel like people in their 40s about it but exactly well and let's page crush Thunder Blunder well I want to say one last thing and I don't answer that guys we're talking about this one because our great for patrons at patreon.com backslash OHT podcast voted for us to talk about this one so if you enjoyed that dumb game that we just did there's plenty more if you go to the patreon because we do dumb games every

[00:44:22] single I believe it's Friday morning there it that made it a hit. It was the combo. So you can't discount someone's performance just because they didn't write it. But had she written it,

[00:45:41] I think I would have went undoubtedly Thunder,

[00:45:44] but now I'm on the fence, didn't really like,

[00:45:47] I think we don's what I'm gonna say. Jennifer, if you're listening, love the song, think you're a talented artist, really good. And I think that she should have, and I'm glad that she's still making music, I think she should have a successful career. But if I was saying, should she have had more massive hits,

[00:47:04] that she deserved to be bigger than she was,

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